Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Simplify & fix saved_tgids logic

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:35:29 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> C99 comments are allowed since about 5 years ago.

Really, I thought Linus hated them. Personally, I find them rather ugly
myself. The only user of them I see in the kernel/ directory appears to
be for RCU. But Paul's on the C/C++ committee, so perhaps he favors them.

The net/ directory doesn't have any, except perhaps to comment out code
(which I sometimes use it for that too).

The block/, arch/x86/ directories don't have them either.

I wouldn't go and change checkpatch, but I still rather avoid them,
especially for multi line comments.

 /*
  * When it comes to multi line comments I prefer using something
  * that denotes a start and an end to the comment, as it makes it
  * look like a nice clip of information.
  */

Instead of:

  // When it comes to multi line comments I prefer using something
  // that denotes a start and an end to the comment, as it makes it
  // look like a nice clip of information.

Which just looks like noise. But hey, maybe that's just me because I
find "*" as a sign of information and '//' something to ignore. ;-)

-- Steve